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Why don't cars have diagnostic software loaded onto their infotainment centers?

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Modern cars have MASSIVE digital displays, loads of computers systems monitoring every subsystem and internal diagnostics running to the OBDII ports.

Why the hell can’t we get diagnostic feeds on our console or infotainment center?

I’m not aware of any car manufacturers selling their own diagnostic ASICs, so it’s not an extra margin to squeeze afaik…

What gives? Any insight into this beyond the usual muh corporate profits conjecture?

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MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world
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“Fuck you. Give us money” - BMW (probably)

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boonhet@lemm.ee
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Ironically, BMWs do or at least used to, have diagnostic functionality in their infotainment centers. It wouldn’t go very deep, but it was more informative than “lol engine bad visit workshop”. It’d still tell you to visit the workshop, but it’d also tell you why.

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BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
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No, you’re thinking of Mercedes, this is BMW so you have to buy the ‘fuck you’ subscription, just a monthly 15€, to get that amount of response from them.

That subscription is only available for customers who have bought the “car seat heat ON”, “car seat heat OFF”, “AC direction control with an optional AC temperature control upgrade”, AND the “rear mirror defrost” subscriptions … as well as having less than 20000km on the odometer, past 20k km the subscription is 20€ and requires the “advanced oil leak detection system” subscription (it’s just a light on the dash to remind you to casually look where you parked for oil spots)

Fuck BMW, let me have an Opel Kadett instead

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